The Labor enquirer., 1887-12-03
the idlers. keep he wsfeho1se3
locked up and revsI + luxury sad

voluptuousness. 34W men VII
manufactured shoes and boot
and had helped 6ll the store
houses with these products eve
since their boyhood, and yet thel
fingered to leave their shantie.
after rainy weather for fear Of get
ting wet feet, and - many cases
the toes Of. their children's feet
peeped speafingly out Of the top
of the shabby shoes. Bricklayer.
were busy building houses from
sunrise until sunset for several de
cades, yet as / looked about me
| discovered but very few who
called a house their own; they
were bound to pay rent for tht
very same houses which they
buiM. The clothing stores ! knew
to be crammed with goods, but i
was not rare spectacle in my ma
tive city to see tailors walk about
i'm the streets with pants patched
to such an extent that they re-
sembled chess-boards. My ia.
ther's neighbor worked in a butch.
er shop. but his wages were so low
that his family could afford the
luxury of one pound of meat only
once week-on Sunday. 1t did
not require a profound thinker to
discover that the prevailing in
stitutions were based upon the ex.
tortion of one class of another"
Further on he says: From
their earliest childhood the work
ingmen are being prepared for
their destiny, like the dancing
bear brought up for the profession
by his master. In the schools
and churches they are told that il
is the will of God that theresshould
be rich and poor people. God
knows and sees everything, and
nSe eMhg exists u-ithout His
knowledge. The doings Of the
Almighty being wise and inscru.
table, He has special purpose in
bestowing wealth and riches upon
some of His children, whilst others
perish in want of the indispensa.
BILE necessities. For those who are
seemingly neglected on this mis-
cradle earth will be given the
more recognition in heaven, SC
that everything will be balanced
nfter all. Work and pray. for Goo
Himself had demanded of sinful
humanity to eat their daily bread
in the sweat of their brow.
"But if these blind, ever-dream.
ling slaves would only glance be-
hind the curtains they would dis
cover that they are UNANIMOUSLY
duped. They would find that
those who yell in their ears. Work
and pray condescend to pray
indeed, but do not work, and that
those who never tire of reminding
the toilers of the demand Of God
that they should eat their daily
bread in the sweat of their brow
do not apply this adage to them
selves. To be sure, these hypo
critics sweat sometimes, but mo-
from work; they do so amid wilc
orgies and debaucheries.
Anarchists, as well as all othel
thinking people. claim that in th'
present society a great number o
people are deprived of a decen1
existence. we demand tie rxix
stalzaion of the .disixA<yikd! /!
this an outrage upon societya Ar
we therefore dangerous criminals
whose lives should be taken in
the interests of the common goot
of society,"
"The strongest bulwark Of tn.
capitalistic system is the igno
rance of its victims. The average
toilers shakes his head like the
incredulous Thomas when one
tries tomake plausible to him thai
he is held in economic bondage.
Laws and the violation there
of, crimes, are attributed to the
institution of private property, es-
pecially to the unequal distribu.